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Hey, you said the suns losing too much defensively wouldn't be a big deal because they don't care about playing defense. That sounds like saying they are a bad defense team to me. In your trade, the only decent defender on the team is Marion and Diaw on some nights. Nash is a great off the ball defender, and then after that you plummet to no one who plays anything resembling defense at all. You can't win just outscoring people. You have to get stops and that team couldn't stop anyone. And chemistry issues. Its like this, Chicago would either have to change offenses COMPLETELY, or add Bryant to their offense. Their offense now has Hinrich as the primary ball handler, and Deng curling off alot of screens on each wing, which would be Bryants place in their offense. If they continued to run their same offense without Ben Gordon to stretch the floor away from Deng(now Bryant) then it doesn't run as effectively. Basically they would have to adjust BIG time to utilize both players. Yes...there will be chemistry issues. Adding big men that do the same thing as the big men the year before (really what is the difference between the Role of Wallace and Thomas over Chandler?) isn't the same as rehauling your offense. They would win games, but they would be taken apart by a more experienced team in the playoffs. Chemistry shows itself when the team is in trouble and you don't have someone going off and doing their own thing because they aren't used to or don't trust the new offense. I don't see how this affects me saying that they are raping everyone on the deal. I said they would lose ONE year. In year two of this deal, the suns probably lose Gordon, who would be a free agent, because they wouldn't be able to afford to resign him, thus they will lose all their draft picks and the one good player they get in this deal. Then they have traded Barbosa and Bell for Bryan Cook and Radmanavic. The lakers get screwed from the start so it doesn't get any better. The Bulls would have Hinrich, Bryant, Deng, Turiaf, maybe Nocioni and still have cap space. They are coming out like bandits in this deal. I know Gordon isn't just a three point shooter. But he is just a scorer. He is a shorter Michael Redd, no more, no less. Although Redd is a little bit better of a defender. Gordon does not stay in front of quick guards and big guards muscle him around. For the BULLS he is certainly more expendable. Maybe not for another team. If this was, say, Houston, no, you move Hinrich. But really, the guy is just a scorer...a damn good one, but just a scorer. They could take Salim Stoudimire for Atlanta and probably get similar results honestly.

I am against anything that keeps Kevin Ollie in the NBA. Next to Anthony Carter and Ira Newble, I don't think I could respect any NBA players game less than Kevin Ollie. I do think the Griz would be better served at looking for some defensive help at the two guard and just get rid of Stromile Swift(I think he just brings the team down). They have a glut of big men, and all of them can actually play. back court wise, they need health. Kyle Lowery was looking like a big fucking steal until the injury, and Damon isn't a bad vet to have around....I don't think Andre Miller plays as well on a team with a extablished post threat. He is more of a uptempo, fast break guard. ... Do they have a coach in Memphis yet?

Since they were statistically one of the better defensive teams in the league last year and have a all defensive first teamer and Marion(who should have been on the team) and Thomas, all of which are damn good defenders. Saying THomas never fit in with the team is...well...ignoring that he fit in with the team. After being destroyed last year by Kwame Brown, Elton Brand and any other big in the playoffs, it was obvious that a big man defender was needed, and since Amare can't defend ME, Thomas is pretty much the Phoenix front line defender. Bottomline, plus/minus, the Suns play better with Kurt than without him. The team you proposed has Amare and no one else is over 6'9 (maybe radmanivic, but come on, you would be hard pressed to name a point guard that couldn't post him up). And they are supposed to win in the west, where every team has a serviceable big man you have to defend. No....that doesn't work at all. You traded the entire team. Yes, there would be chemistry issues when they are all used to playing together. Gordon doesn't fit in the Suns scheme. Neither does Radmanvic. Hell, neither does Cook for that matter. People seem to think that phoenix's system is simply run around like a idiot and launch threes. Thats not the case. Rad and Cook have shown the basketball IQ of a turnip, and Gordon isn't a catch and shoot player, he is a shoot off the dribble player, often created in one on one situations, and no one in phoenix really goes one on one outside of Nash in switch situations. Um, your trade kept the PJ Brown, gave them Kurt Thomas and Ronny Turiaf. That would be one of the better defensive front courts in the NBA. And both Thomas and Brown have expiring contracts saving them almost, what, 25+ million in cap space after next season. AND they still have Nocioni? Yeah. The are raping everyone on that team. And how does it ruin chemistry? Kobes game would negate Dengs game(and Gordons too) and to some extent Hinrichs until they learned to play with him. Kobe has only played in the triangle since coming into the league, and thats not what they would be running in Chicago, thus Kobe would have to adjust. OR they would bring in the triangle and the other players would have to adjust. In other words, chemistry issues. Kobes talents would blend in with the Suns offense, and it would blend in with the stand and watch offense of the Knicks, but not so much with the Bulls. Hinrich is should be untouchable. Gordon is way more expendable. If Gordon's shot is off, he offers nothing else on the court, and you would be hard pressed to show any evidence stating otherwise. Hinrich is one of the better on the ball defenders in the league, and can run a offense much better than Gordon when his own shot is off. Gordon can shoot the shit out of the ball and thats about it. They wouldn't be getting a scrub back, but they would be losing a first team all defensive player in the backcourt for a guy that can't guard anyone in the back court. With your trade Phoenix goes from being a "bad defensive team" to being a bad defensive team(minus the quotes which would mean it is actually true). In games Banks got more than 20 min of PT, he averaged 15 points and 6 assist for the suns this year. Basically, when the kid played he played well. He committed one sin in D'antonis offense and thats stopping the ball. It would hit him and there would be a hesitation and that screwed up the entire offense. He was just new to it. He needs to adjust. That is all. This is the same offense that saw Barbosa really sucking for 2 years there too.

Humanoid, I am not going to quote that because it is huge, but basically the Bulls and Suns would destroy their team chemistry and take at least another year to get together again. The Suns lose too much defensively, The Bulls come out raping everyone in that deal and the Lakers are left with no scorers outside of Barbosa. Once again, the Suns trade the Lakers the Hawks pick next year, two first rounders this year, Barbosa, and Marion and its a better deal for them. All they would have to give up is Kobe. THe Suns on the other hand, and this is assuming they are going to sign Grant Hill like all signs point to, have a lineup of: Amare, Marion, Hill, Bryant, Nash with Diaw, Kurt Thomas and James Jones(realistically) coming off the bench. I say realistically because D'antoni isn't going any deeper than 8, even though he should play Banks.

So....whats the difference between this and like...any PDA phone right now? the HTC Wizard plays wide screen video, has full functioning internet with full web pages, windows media player, wi-fi, blue tooth, numerous homescreen plugins that can make its interactivity customable, touch screen(although not multifinger and with a stylus) and upgradeable memory with miniSD cards (which go up to like 2-3 gigs now and are really cheap) The only thing you are missing is GPS really and that visual voicemail thing, which is cool and all, but who cares. You can get a Wizard for like 150 bucks if you look in the right place. The only thing that seems special about this phone to me is the OSX instead of Windows Mobile. And since I couldn't care less about running OSX, thats not a big deal to me either. I don't know. Between me having a wizard already and a WMA, the announcements of Apple TV and Iphone were pretty disappointing to me.

No, Shadow Run doesn't have 1p and Vampires Rain is Splinter Cell with Vamps. Its pretty stupid if you ask me. Plus they really can kick the crap out of you. I personally don't like games where the goal is to avoid every fucking enemy in the game.

Also, the bulls have another year to try and win a championship with their current roster anyway, because with Hinrich getting his extension, Nocioni and the extensions that Gordon and Deng will be commanding, you are going to lose ONE of them at least and more likely two. You can trade them now for Kobe and get him for a few years, or you can hope to resign all of them. And I challenge someone to point out a guy in that group that couldn't get at least 8-9 mil a year from another team at least(Deng and Gordon will most likely get more on the open market). With the proposed trade, you have a pretty craptacular team there. I would rather see them give up Thomas and Nocioni, Browns expiring contract, and Deng OR Gordon(okay...Gordon). Then you would still have a team. But i doubt the Lakers would take that.

Its from the NY post. "Lets trade marion for a guy whose salary will still put us over the cap, give us maybe 2 more points a game, fewer rebounds, fewer steals, fewer blocks, and can't play defense." No....no, I don't think its the best deal. Maybe Jamison, the rights to Oleksiy Pecherov and Andray Blatche plus picks for Marion then they could talk.

Yes. The salaries have to match so they would have to give up ALOT of players to match Kobe's maxed out contract. Thus making the team suck because they had to give up everyone to match the salaries.

Monica Bellucci is the fucking shit. She can't act worth a damn, but hell, she made The Brothers Grimm somewhat interesting with her boobs propped all up. Oh, and the cigarette, "do that again and I'm gonna kill ya" scene is one of the great scenes in action movie history. Right up there with Matrix killing the guy that was giving him the "We have your daughter and if you want her back...." speech.

The bulls would suck if they made the trade though, mostly because most of their guys are still on their rookie contracts like Deng and Gordon, so even though they have the talent, they don't have the salaries.

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Al Jefferson is at the tip of dominance and he is alot younger. You can build around him. you should only bring in Garnett if you think you can win a championship with him within the next few years. I give him to 35 before he starts his decline (I am being nice). Although in that proposed trade, the only player that has any trade value is Jefferson. Which is why i don't see what Boston could really give up to Minny to bring in Garnett.

With Marion and Barbosa, you get back two guys that will put up 20 + a game, one of the best defenders in the league, and one of the best rebounders. Odem would have to be the playmaker though because Barbosa is a scorer, not a point. plus 3 first round draft picks would be pretty nice and there will be guys in the 20's this year that would help the team.

Well, according to ESPN, Kobe Narrowed his choices to go play in New York, Chicago or Phoenix. I have to say again, Marion and Barbosa, Atlanta's unprotected first rounder and the 2 first rounders they have this year for Bryant...that is probably the best deal you could put together out there right now for the Lakers that works under the cap. You would have to almost gut Chicago and New York doesn't really have anything to offer. Plus, I would argue that Barbosa and Marion are better than any player or players that CHicago has.

Because the gordon/skiles drama is alot better.

Aldridge couldn't guard a 3. Randolph can't guard anyone.

I never understand those trades. Delfino is obviously better than anyone you are going to find in the second round in either of those years. Not using him is part of the reason they lost.

i want to get one, but then I remembered how I never go anywhere that I really need it. When I upgrade cellphones, i will get something with GPS in it then.

You know, the first 5 minutes of Passions is the funniest goddamned thing on television right now. Its like Troll 2 bad. the acting is horrible and some what the fuck moments are bound to happen. My favorite is the little girl who speaks through thought bubbles that pop up on the screen with a "pop" sound effect. She was recently kidnapped by witches. With the witch hats....and the witch pot...real witches. And they are completely serious. Which makes it all the more hilarious. I just watch up until the lady sings "Passions for LIIIIIIIIIIFE" so I don't know what the fuck happens after that, but who cares...what happens before is hilarious.

The one year rule is ridiculous. Forcing these kids to play in a high risk game for 3 years for free while the schools make millions of dollars off of them is just plain wrong. And once again, this more polished player crap. College basketball is a completely different game than the NBA. You can play 8 years in college if you want to, if your skills are not taylored for the NBA game you are going to be a fucking bust. It is no coincidence that most of the best players in the league played little to no college basketball. And the ones that are good now (like Nash) played nothing like he does now in college. It took him years to relearn the game and learn new skills to become a productive player. Lebron James would not have been a bigger name. Rashard Lewis would have been a bigger name. Kwame Brown would have been a bigger name(and bigger bust). College basketball should be nothing more than a showcase for players who teams are iffy about. If a guy has the skill to make the league directly out of highschool, then he should be able to do so. You simply aren't going to find a kid out of highschool with the body to take on the rigors of a NFL schedule. The NBA is different. And as for the whole leastern conference: Miami and Detroit can compete with anyone out west and there is a major falloff after that in the East. Dallas, San Antonio and Phoenix are the cream of the crop in the West and there is a major fall off after that. So basically there are 5 really good teams in the league and the rest is pretty meh. The "GREAT WESTERN CONFERENCE" thing is really overblown.

Although the governer doesn't have the power to pardon him or anything, he pretty much gave an endorsement to the DA yesterday saying that letting this kid out would open the door to the other 1300 people convicted of aggravated child molestation to get out. Of course none of them are in prison under anything close to the same circumstances, but since the governer has lended his support and the DA is determined not to let this kid out, it is looking pretty grim for him. It is a pretty good liklihood that he is going to have to live out the remaining 7 years of his sentence.

I am happy they de-gayed the mask, because the one in the first movie sucked.

No where has bad drivers. Its when you mix them all up and the differnent driving styles clash, it creates havoc. Take Atlanta. 60% of the city are transplants from other citys. So you take Atlanta driver with New Jersey driver and Chicago driver and those three styels create a deadly mix.

Don't let people paying attention to the sport for one month fool you. The NBA is still more popular. Just two unpopular teams made the finals. two defensive teams that don't shoot particularly well. The worse thing to happen for the NBA was Durant and Oden going out west too. Also, if they would force some east teams to change coaches, they also would be more exciting and better. Off the top of my head I can think of 6 teams (Detroit, Orlando, Chicago, Boston, Philly, Altanta) that are built to run and exciting brand of running/scoring basketball and all of their coaches insist on a half court set and get nothing done which leads to boring basketball. The East has the talent, they don't have the proper thinking. Plus, seriously, the East won the Championship last year. And 2 years before that. The west is just dominating the regular season and this year was pretty ugly.